Re: New Software Can Change One Note in the Thicket - Post Production Software Question

On Jun 22, 8:42 am, Jay Rose <see_sigf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-06-22 09:24:47 -0400, Jan McLaughlin <jannie....@xxxxxxxxx> said:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/technology/22novel.html?
partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all>

"The new software is precise enough, for instance, to reach into an
audio file and change any one of the six notes in a guitar chord
without changing the sound of the other notes..."
Adds new meaning to the oft-heard phrase, "Fix it in post."

What neato new software are you post mavens using these days? Would
love to hear y'all speak to recent hot software solutions.

Thanks for the link. Yes, this guy has apparently analyzed harmonics on
different instruments and can sort them out while doing pitch
correction... very cool indeed.

The reporter makes reference to 'different voices in a barbershop
quartet', which I think is over-reaching. Each vowel sound, even when
sung by the same person on the same note, has a different harmonic mix.
Someday soon, maybe... but I don't think even the inventor is claiming
this yet.

So: applications for post? Plenty in music, where instrumental
harmonics are mostly predictable, but nothing in dialog. Yet.

"Hot" software solutions for post? That's mostly a question of
marketing and scaling. One company is making a big deal about being
able to drag a speech envelope against picture and warp its timing to
fit lip movements, but other software has had that for a few years.

Graphic editing in frequency space, aka wavelet editing, where you can
retouch a spectragram to get rid of pitched transitory ambient noises
(like car horns or distant bells) is also very cool. Izotope's RX -
fairly new on the desktop - can do an amazing job. But we saw it coming
on dedicated DSP with Cedar Retouch, a few years ago. So that's a
scaling/porting question: as hosts get smarter, things that used to be
DSP intensive can now happen in the CPU. (Adobe Audition and Soundbooth
also offer frequency space editing, though a lot more limited than
Izotope's.)

My holy grail of neato new software? How about combining speech
recognition - which has gotten pretty powerful - with natural speech
synthesis? Production tracks too noisy? Have the computer re-say them
in the actor's delivery. Need an airline version? Cancel the ADR
session and just type 'freaking' on your keyboard.

We're not there yet, either in synthesis capability (though AT&T seems
to be getting close) or in desktop power. But Moore's Law keeps on
marching...

--
Jay Rose CAS
tutorials and other sound goodies at dplay.com
email is "jay@" plus the dot-com in the previous line.

Speaking of Soundboth did u ever try their attempt to implement
dictation within their software. Oh my was it bad.I tried it with 4 or
5 different audio clips from different documentaries. Jay also sadly
enough when we get to the point where you could type in ADR computers
will no longer need us to help them make movies.
best
ian
.

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